5.1b Communicating Solutions in Written & Oral Form

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Problem-Solving Skills for University Success

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The University of Sydney

Problem-Solving Skills for University Success

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Curso 2 de 5 em Specialization Academic Skills for University Success

In this course, you will learn how to develop your Problem Solving and Creativity Skills to help you achieve success in your university studies. After completing this course, you will be able to: 1. Recognise the importance and function of problem solving and creative thought within academic study and the role of critical thought in creative ideation. 2. Develop a toolkit to be able to identify real problems and goals within ill-defined problems 3. Recognize and apply analytical problem solving techniques 4. Recognise and apply creative problem solving techniques 5. Identify the use of creativity within and types of problems most common to your field 6. Apply learnt problem solving and creative ideation skills to a real-life context and reflect on personal learning processes

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Communicating Solutions & Solving Problems in Academic Life

After this module, you will be able to 1. Communicate your solutions to problems to your audience. 2. Study for university exams, & communicate your solutions to problems in exams. 3. Deal with competing priorities at university. 4. Find solutions to problems that can occur at university.

5.1a Communicating Solutions5:51

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Katherine Olston
Deputy Director (Digital Learning)
University of Sydney Centre for English Teaching
Lydia Dutcher
Education Manager, Graduate Programs
Centre for English Teaching

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What I often notice with students is that they see to be at university and

are very happy that they no longer to do English.

And that's a shame,

because communication is very important in all aspects of life, including science.

My students and I spent a very long time writing papers and

we go through every sentence and we go through every paragraph and

comma to make sure we communicate well.

And my students and I give oral presentations.

And again it's easy to give the presentation that nobody understands but

that's not the point.

And so it's leashed in physics, we start to sometimes in first year and

sometimes in second year that they give presentations to their peers and

the result are sometimes quite shocking.

We asked them to write documents and they need a lot of editing.

And so, preparing for university by knowing how to write reasonably well,

grammatically, but not only grammatically, but

also putting an idea together coherently.

And so that one idea leads to the next idea, etc, etc.

Some students have difficulty with and I think that is a very important skill to

have and to develop further issue progress through university.

>> In education, we have no, not really any tests so

that solutions are communicated through speaking and through writing.

We have a lot of presentations and so

students often have to prepare PowerPoints and give talks to the class.

I find often that students are not prepared to give a formal talk.

So they might read out their notes or read out the PowerPoint.

But what they need to do is not only know the solutions but think through

presentations skills and how to confident in talking and answering questions.

That's something that's very scary.

They also need to be able to write these solutions out and I find for

a lot of students they're not used to putting their ideas up front.

Often they will write around the topic and it's almost like the first time they

write, they follow their thinking, so they'll say, I did this, I did this,

I did this, I didn't do this, and then I thought this.

Whereas when you are writing, it's got to be the other way around.

It's got to be, I think this because of this, this, this.

And this mistake is made by local students as well as international students.

Local students excuse me saying tend to write as they speak,

an international students often leave the main point until the end.

So, it's really putting your ideas upfront in writing and speaking and

then backing it up and giving reasons.

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